Brown-capped Vireo (Vireo leucophrys)

Other Names (World)
Brown-capped Vireo, Mexican Brown-capped Vireo (eleanorae, dubius, amauronotus, strenuus, bulli, palmeri)

Family
Vireonidae (Vireos)

Size
12 - 13 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Lafresnaye, 1844)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical moist montane forest. From 1,000 - 2,500 m, occasionally 500 - 3,150 m.

Range (Guide)

Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Venezuela.

Population
Estimated population is 50,000 - 499,999 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (26)...)

Brown-capped Vireo (Vireo leucophrys) [XC525834]
by id from SFF Iguaque, Colombia (?)

Brown-capped Vireo (Vireo leucophrys) [XC259170]
by John V. Moore from Napo: 'Caba\u00f1as San Isidro', 1-2 km SW Cosanga, Ecuador (call, calls)

Subspecies
Sometimes placed in a separate genus, Melodivireo. May form a superspecies with Eastern Warbling-Vireo (Vireo gilvus), and often considered conspecific, but the two differ in plumage and some vocalizations. Northern subspecies (eleanorae, dubius, amauronotus, strenuus, bulli, palmeri) have been treated as forming a separate species, distinct from that consisting of remaining subspecies (in Costa Rica, Panama and South America).

Proposed subspecies chiriquensis (described from Boquete, at Volcán de Chiriqu��, in Panama) and disjunctus (from Antioquia, in Colombia) both treated as synonyms of dissors.

The following 14 subspecies are recognised:

eleanorae Sutton & Burleigh, 1940 - North-eastern Mexico (south-western Tamaulipas south to northern Hidalgo).
dubius (Phillips, AR, 1991) - East-central Mexico (near Ciudad Victoria, in Tamaulipas).
amauronotus Salvin & Godman, 1881 - South-eastern Mexico (north-eastern Puebla east to west-central Veracruz).
strenuus Nelson, 1900 - Southern Mexico (northern Chiapas).
bulli Rowley, JS, 1968 - South-western Mexico (south-eastern Oaxaca).
palmeri (Phillips, AR, 1991) - Mountains of Honduras, possibly also northern El Salvador.
costaricensis (Ridgway, 1903) - Central Costa Rica (Cordillera de Tilarán).
dissors Zimmer, JT, 1941 - Southern Costa Rica, western and eastern Panama, and north-western Colombia (western and central Andes, southern on western slope to western Nariño).
mirandae Hartert, 1917 - Northern Colombia (Santa Marta Mts) and north-western Venezuela (Zulia, and Táchira east to Sucre).
josephae Sclater, PL, 1859 - South-western Colombia (central Andes in Nariño) and western Ecuador.
leucophrys (Lafresnaye, 1844) - Eastern Andes from Colombia south to central Peru.
maranonicus Zimmer, JT, 1941 - Northern Peru (both slopes of western Andes, west of R Marañón).
laetissimus (Todd, 1924) - South-eastern Peru and northern Bolivia (La Paz and Cochabamba).
chiriquensis (Bangs, 1903) - Subtropical Costa Rica and extreme western Panama.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Brown-capped Vireo (Vireo leucophrys) - 10 files

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